print email comment close Administration Employing State Secrets Privilege at Quick Clip URL: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4838701&ft=1&f=1001 Description: Audio file of a news story about how "the Bush administration is increasingly using the state secrets privilege. It is a series of precedents that allow the government to dismiss court cases on the grounds that evidence introduced in the trial could jeopardize national security." Includes information about how this privilege is explained in a 1953 U.S. Supreme Court decision and more current uses of the privilege. From National Public Radio (NPR). Author: Northam, Jackie Publisher: National Public Radio (NPR) Extra Keywords U.S. v. Reynolds classified information Library of Congress Subject Headings: Executive privilege (Government information) More new Official secrets -- United States Security classification (Government documents) LII Database Information: Record 14766 created by Maria Brandt on 09/19/2005 Last modification on 09/12/2006 Published: 09/19/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/14766